Hi guys, any help on this issue would be appreaciated....I have looked through the Java Developer Connection forum and many people seem to have this problem.



I have developed an EJB with VisualAge 4.0. I can successful talk to the EJB within the VisualAge Websphere Test Environment using a simple client class.



When I deploy the EJB within WebSphere 4.0 I cannot seem to talk to it from my VisualAge development enviroment using the same client class as before.



My code falls over at the JNDI lookup stage, giving me a "Could not get InitialContext" error.



My code is as follows:


// Populate URL
String url = "IIOP://" + "192.168.1.2" + ":" + "900" + "/";

p.put(javax.naming.Context.PROVIDER_URL, url);

p.put(javax.naming.Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.ibm.ejs.ns.jndi.CNInitialContextFactory");



initialContext = new InitialContext(p);

String jndiName = BuildSystemProfile.class.getName().replace('.', '/');

Object o = initialContext.lookup(jndiName);

BuildSystemProfileHome home = (BuildSystemProfileHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(o, BuildSystemProfileHome.class);

BuildSystemProfile bsf = home.create();

String msg = bsf.testMsg("You say hello");




The error I get is as follows:


Could not get InitialContext!

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException:
tdw/ejb/BuildSystemProfile

java.lang.Throwable(java.lang.String)

java.lang.Exception(java.lang.String)

javax.naming.NamingException(java.lang.String)

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException(java.lang.String)

java.lang.Object com.ibm.ejs.ns.jndi.CNContextImpl.doLookup(org.omg.CosNaming.NameComponent [])

java.lang.Object com.ibm.ejs.ns.jndi.CNContextImpl.lookup(java.lang.String)

java.lang.Object javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(java.lang.String)

void tdw.ejb.TestBuildSystemProfile.main(java.lang.String [])




Issues:


- I have had a good look on the web and at the Sun Developer Connection there seems to be quite a few people with similar problems with all App.Servers in the market. I can't seem to find a clear answer, but what is becoming obvious from those forums is that for a client to communicate with an EJB in a App.Server, the client needs to have the App.Servers deployment .jars in it's classpath. Apparently with WebSphere you also need to have the IBM JVM installed.



*** Well, I have done both of these things yet I still get an error.



*** Can anyone please shed some light as to what steps I need to do exactly. Please explicitly list what needs to be done. Your help would be greatly appreaciated.



Regards
Michael